Past tense of disown
regular verb
The past tense of disown is disowned. The past participle is also disowned.
Forms of disown
| Base form (V1) | disown /dɪsˈəʊn/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | disowned |
| Past participle (V3) | disowned |
| Present participle | disowning |
| Third person singular | disowns |
Disowned in a sentence
- They may be chanceless children, disowned and unloved, for whom life holds no promise.1983, The A.M.E. Zion Quarterly Review, volumes 95-97, page 38. From the entry chanceless
- 'Not long before he died, the old man disowned him.2002, Jack Womack, Going, Going, Gone, page 73. From the entry forgive and forget
- He was indeed a pillar of support to many young Ahmadists who were disowned by their parents for abandoning orthodox Islam.1999, Siyan Oyeweso, Eminent Yoruba Muslims of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, page 125. From the entry Ahmadist
- Insarov's and Elena's idealism is not unnaturally coloured with Quixotic elements which the realists of the sixties themselves would have disowned.1980, Robert Dessaix, Turgenev, the Quest for Faith, page 63. From the entry quixotic
- I’ve returned everything that I borrowed and then some, but it never sat well with her father and he disowned her right along with me.2016, William McChesney, “Back to the War”, in Retribution: They Must All Die, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry dribble
Meaning of disown
- verb To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
- verb To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
- verb To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.
Questions about the past tense of disown
- What is the past tense of disown?
- The past tense of disown is disowned.
- What is the past participle of disown?
- The past participle of disown is disowned.
- Is disown a regular or irregular verb?
- Disown is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disown (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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